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There are 3 Autodesk Community Conversations This Week

Community Conversations are live, virtual events designed to allow you to gain expertise, connect with leaders and grow your community network. Understanding Remote Work Capabilities with Autodesk Software in Today's Industry Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET (1 hour) Expert Elite member Dzan Ta In this session, Expert Elite member Dzan Ta will lead a discussion about the challenges and trends on how all stakeholders work in such a disconnected, remote environment due to current... Read more →

Livestream Ask Me Anything: Revit Roadmap for Generative and Computational Design Monday June 14th, 2021

Have questions about the future of Generative Design and computation in Revit? Join a panel of Autodesk product managers as they take on your questions and share what's in the development pipeline. Check the Revit product roadmap: https://trello.com/b/ldRXK9Gw/revit-p... Get your questions ready, and set a reminder to join the livestream on June 14, 2021 8am PT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAIm1Fyf00Y Read more →

Two AEC Focused Autodesk Community Conversations Tomorrow June 3rd, 2021

Join us tomorrow for two Autodesk Community Conversations. Building the muscle for a Revit Family Thursday, June 3, 2021 8 AM PT | 11 AM ET (1 hour) Expert Speaker Donnia Tabor-Hanson Donnia Tabor-Hanson continues her Revit Families series to discuss how to start building some muscle for a Revit family once the bones and ligaments (reference planes and parameters) are set. We'll talk about extrusions, sweeps, blends, and such, both solid and voids with overall best practices for building... Read more →

The Revit – Have You Tried This List

Jeff Hanson, Senior Content Experience Designer on the Autodesk Revit team posted a great blog post highlighting some great features and tips using them that many may be able to benefit and pick up a tip or try something out. Check it out, I bet you learn something! Have You Tried? Investigating Revit features and workflows. Read more →

Get the most out of Revit Families – Expert Series from Donnia Tabor-Hanson

If you haven't joined for a session with one of our favorite Revit trainers and a Revit Family Counselor, Donnia Tabor-Hanson, you should. You can watch the recordings or join for the next in the series on Thursday June 3rd this week for valuable Revit tips and tricks and bring your questions. June 3, 2021 Building the Muscle for a Revit Family Once your bones and ligaments (I mean, your Reference Planes and Parameters) are set in a family it... Read more →

Two Autodesk Community Conversation Events this Week

This week there are two great Community Conversation events to join and learn great tips or get your questions answered. These session are recorded for those unable to attend. Revit Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting with Paul Aubin AutoCAD Electrical with Tiffany Bachmeier For more Autodesk Community Conversation Events see the Community Conversations Calendar Read more →

The Smarter Way to Exchange DWG Across Disciplines

Autodesk has released the new Design Collaboration Module that provides a means for easy cloud collaboration with DWG files in Revit. “What’s the Design Collaboration module? Design Collaboration is a web-based product module included in our cloud offerings BIM Collaborate (for project reviewers) and its Pro version (for design authors). Our Revit-reliant customers have been using Design Collaboration to manage the exchange of design data between teams ever since BIM Collaborate Pro, formerly “BIM 360 Design”, was launched.” Read more... Read more →

What's New in Revit 2022

This YouTube playlist highlights 37 new features for design productivity, interoperability, documentation efficiency, and developers in Autodesk Revit 2022. Revit 2022 Playlist Some Direct feature video Links: The Shared Views feature makes it easy for you to share 2D and 3D views and sheets of your Revit project across the project team. Improve your conceptual design workflows with seamless FormIt Pro integration. Revit 2022 helps structural engineers place steel connections quickly and accurately using automated tools and predefined ranges of... Read more →

Revit 2022 Sneak Peek –Today

Jeremy Tammik provided a heads up on his Building Coder blog to a session with Revit Product Managers Harlan Brumm and Sasha Crotty today at 12:30 Pacific Time and another full what's new session on April 13th. Link: Sneak Peek, Automatic Column, Arc Angle, Career Read more →

Dealing with Office Occupancy with a Dynamo Mega-Graph

My colleague, amazing developer, fellow blogger, and good friend Kean Walmsley published a timely and informative third article in a series on how to use Dynamo to evaluate safe office occupancy in the age of COVID virus. The latest in the series is Building a Mega-Graph. COVID Office Occupancy: Single-Objective Optimization COVID Office Occupancy: Multi-Objective Optimization COVID Office Occupancy: Building a Mega-Graph Read more →

Learn About Revit Automation and Generative Design

There is a free Autodesk eBook now available on learning about how automation and generative design can empower you to meet new challenges and shape the built environment of the future. The Future is a Design Challenge eBook ”Solving tomorrow’s challenges with automation and generative design “ autode.sk/2W3H6f0 Read more →

Revit Public Roadmap & Ask Me Anything

The Revit Team just launched a Revit Public Roadmap built upon Trello. Revit Team Roadmap Update Blog Post: autode.sk/36qrdEl Check out what's in development here: The Live Revit Public Roadmap The Revit Team is holding an Ask Me Anything live-stream from Autodesk University next week at Autodesk University – which is free this year. Get your questions ready, the team will be bringing the answers. Live Revit AMA 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Wed, Nov 18, 2020 “Revit Product Roadmap... Read more →

Generative Design in Revit - Have You Tried?

Learn how to use Generative Design to develop a restaurant layout. What is Generative Design ? Generative Design in Revit allows you to leverage Dynamo graphs to explore outcome-based solutions for your designs. You define criteria and constraints for the design problem. Then Generative Design uses this information to iterate many possible solutions, presenting them to you for further evaluation. When you decide on the optimal solution, click a button to integrate it into the model for further development. Why... Read more →

Revit 2020 - People Flow Toolkit

On Friday, Autodesk released the People Flow Toolkit, an add-in that helps you automate path of travel analysis with tools for social distancing. “The People Flow Toolkit extends Revit’s Path of Travel toolset to help you understand how people will move through your design. The People Flow Toolkit is available as an add-on with Revit versions starting at 2020.2. With the toolkit, building designers can automate, visualize, and analyze the routes within a model to understand the impacts of physical... Read more →

Opensource CivilConnection and CivilPython

Autodesk’s Global Delivery Consulting (GCD) employees create innovate and impactful tools and solutions for our customers. Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery employees – Paolo Serra, Ian McGregor and Mohamed Ahmed – turned a manual and error-prone process for transferring data from Civil 3D to Revit into an efficient and scalable solution that enabled real-time information exchange using Dynamo. Over the course of several years, the solution evolved into a popular product feature and eventually moved to open source. CivilConnection and CivilPython... Read more →

Ask Revit Experts Anything this Thursday

Coming this Thursday is an Ask Me Anything session where you bring the questions and Sasha Crotty, Harlan Brumm, and Aaron Vorwerk deliver the answers. An AMA with the product people that make Revit. Join Autodesk product experts Sasha Crotty, Harlan Brumm, and Aaron Vorwerk as they take questions from you and the community about what goes on Inside the Factory. What happens to error reports? When will Revit have slanted walls? Ask Me Anything “AMA” Thursday: 12pm EST: https://youtu.be/hoinpQq1Gbo... Read more →

Inside The Factory With People that Make Revit – Performance Matters

I always enjoy seeing who are working hard behind the scenes of most anything I use or admire, and that goes for Autodesk product teams as well. In this first Inside the Factory episode posted to the Revit Blog Inside the Factory, it is of candid conversation that focuses on Performance with Harlan Brumm, Sasha Crotty, and Aaron Vorwerk. Harlan, Sasha, and Aaron are working hard to continually improve the products Revit customers use day in and day out to... Read more →

Using Generative design in Revit to Evaluate Social Distancing

In this day faced with the COVID-19 virus, architects and building owners have had to re-evaluate social distance in the programming of their building spaces. With Revit's latest release 2021 you get generative design to help accomplish this challenging task efficiently and fast. Read more and see the sample data sets in the Revit blog article. New studies for Generative Design in Revit offer approaches to social distancing ”Autodesk® Revit® 2021 debuted the ability to create generative design studies directly... Read more →

Join Us for a Virtual AEC Hackathon

Over the next couple of weeks there is a online virtual event going on for those in the AEC industry. Some of the presentations are free to attend, but the registration is cheap at $25 to see some of the potential cutting edge silo busting ideas and the hackathon team solution presentations. Come learn something, a new perspective, a new technology, a new contact, a new potential solution to a challenging problem in our industry. For a great deal of... Read more →

Autodesk COVID 19 Resources and Projects

Many of of our jobs and industries are changing due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, with many looking for resources and information on how to change quickly, and safely. Autodesk has created a resource center to support you with details on special programs, remote working assistance, learning, industry resources and Autodesk Foundation information. Autodesk COVID-19 Resource Center If you are in the AEC industry, I would strongly encourage you to look at the Return to Workplace information and resources. https://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/aec-return-to-workplace... Read more →

Global Architecture and Interior Design Student Competition

My local Portland VR collaboration friends over the The Wild are hosting the first annual Global Architecture and Interior Design Student Competition at the VR/AR Global Online Summit. Six student finalists will be selected to share their original 3D models in a live-streamed competition in virtual reality. Applications are due May 20th and the jury includes thought leaders Amy Peck (HTC Vive, EndeavorVR) and Aubrey Tucker (ETRO Construction). The design challenge: Design a space that encourages digital socialization or innovative... Read more →

Throwback Thursday – Revit R1

This BIMalicious historic entry is from my Autodesk history collection after I received every physical release of Revit from longtime Autodesk Research employee now Rick Rundell. Rick was with the Revit startup before Autodesk acquired them in 2002. I even have a Revit 1.0 short to proudly wear to special events. “Design It Rev It” Here is the CD ROM case opened and showing the CD ROM. The exterior of the CD Rom case. Revit Timeline: Revit Timeline from 1.0... Read more →

The Autodesk Group Network – Find Your Group

There are currently 70+ groups around the World and growing of thousands of Autodesk product and technology users just like you. Go have a look and find your group or enter your existing group (add a group) to the growing list. Local groups are an invaluable resource and network as I remember running the Portland Autodesk Users Group years and years ago and many awesome local people looking to share ways of using the software and back then it was... Read more →

Design Automation API Webinar Series - Register Now

Have you ever wanted to automate and process or create data or drawings using a cloud based API in an almost-headless configuration? Design Automation on Forge is most likely the answer to this need. There is still time to get hands on with the new Design Automation APIs. Four webinars are scheduled in December that will cover each of the Design Automation APIs in depth. Register Now and read more at the Autodesk Forge Blog https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/design-automation-api-webinar-series-register-now December 5 - Design... Read more →

AEC Excellence Awards 2019

Every year we recognize some customers for their AEC designs. Every year I am amazed, inspired, and in awe of their projects and the innovative ways they used Autodesk software. These nine winners and the Innovator of the Year will present at Autodesk University 2019 in only a couple of weeks. Read about the winning customers and their projects. ”When it comes to the AEC industry, projects come in all shapes and sizes. So does the innovative use of technology—whether... Read more →